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Founder RadioAntonia Marino, Co-Founder and COO of payments and credit platform Kontempo.io on Kickstarting the Business, 10x growth in Year 2, Focus and EnduranceWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Antonia is COO and Co-founder of Kontempo. Kontempo is a leading payments and credit platform for Mexico’s industrial sector. Started in 2021, but with previous experience in the sector, they’ve executed with laser focus. In 2024 they 10x-ed their business are are now expanding the team and preparing for the next phase of growth. Antonia shares everything from Kont...
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Founder RadioTinashe Ruzane of Flexclub on The Idea Maze, Their Growth and Restructuring Rollercoaster and Personal GrowthWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Tinashe is CEO and Co-founder of Flexclub. Flexclub is piloting an Uber-like car-network for long term rentals, and for other brands to build on top of. Started in 2018, they’ve gone to multiple iterations of their product, while navigating radically changing circumstances for mobility companies: COVID and the end of ZIRP. Tinashe opens up on Flexclub’s rollercoaster, his...
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Founder RadioYoram Wijngaarde of Dealroom.co on following your intuition, the courage to stand out, phases of growth, and how his company shaped him as a personWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Yoram is CEO and founder of Dealroom. Dealroom is a Bloomberg for early stage private companies: It provides data on the companies, their founders, their funding rounds and valuations, and many other aspects of the business. Dealroom’s data is used by investors, corporates and governments in equal parts. In 11 years, the company has grown from just Yoram to...
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Founder RadioKarun Arya of GetVantage on the Early Days, How GetVantage Provides Business Loans in 7-10 days, India's New Digital Infrastructure and his Lessons on EntrepreneurshipWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Karun is part of the founding team and Chief Growth Officer of GetVantage. GetVantage invests between $25k - $2.5m in emerging business in India across certain sectors, like eCommerce, SaaS, gaming, cleantech. Karun is also an investor and advisor in GajiGesa, who’s founder Vidit was on this podcast earlier. Karun has a PR and comms background and has 15 yoe at bo...
2024-07-061h 03Founder RadioVidit Agrawal of GajiGesa on getting from zero to one and from one to 350k users in 4 years, on selecting a business opportunity, working in Indonesia and starting a company with your wifeWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Vidit Agrawal is the founder of GajiGesa (Indonesia), which manages employee finances in South-East Asia, and has amassed 350k users in just under 4 years. With GajiGesa, employees have early access to their wages and no longer need predatory lending, and employers save thousands of hours on administration. Before GajiGesa, Vidit has spent time at several iconic companies: UBS...
2024-07-0435 minFounder RadioFred Jordan of FinalSpark on Building a Computer out of Human Stem Cells, Applying Fundamental Research and Math in Business, Success and HappinessWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Fred Jordan of FinalSpark (Switserland) and his team are building a revolutionary new kind of computer, out of human stem cells. The human brain is several orders of magnitude more energy efficient than silicon based computer, and Fred's team hopes to unlock those efficiencies for out-of-brain computation. They have opened up their platform up to research universities, and to the public...
2024-06-1647 minFounder RadioPit Janssen of MedApp on Bootstrapping, Hidden Funding, How to Win in an Old Industry, Exiting to a Listed Company, and Parenting Tactics for Nurturing Killer EntrepreneursWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Pit Janssen of MedApp has exited his prescription medicine adherence and delivery company to the biggest, stock exchange listed, EUR 2.0bn market cap online pharmacy company in Europe. MedApp launched as a medication adherence app, and rolled out an integrated pharmacy with a delivery function in 2020. They bootstrapped the company with a students loans and IT consultancy work until 2017, at which...
2024-05-2152 minFounder RadioJoel of Trubrics on Closing Their First Round, What No One Knows about LLMs and his Journey from Entreprising Kid to Founder-CEOWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Joel co-founded London-based Trubrics, which helps product teams track what’s happening inside LLM models. He and his co-founder founded the company when they saw companies investing heavily in LLM models but remaining in the dark on what is going on inside. They’ve just closed a pre-seed round, did their first hire and are about to launch their first version of t...
2024-05-2042 minFounder RadioKees Aarts of Protix on Evolution, the Future of Intelligence, his Journey to Success and Insects Potential to Transform the Food ChainWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Meet one of Europe’s most driven impact entrepreneurs: Kees Aarts, founder of Protix. Protix is an insect protein company founded to radically reduce the environmental footprint of our food system and help stop the loss of biodiversity in our seas. Kees and his team started out 14 years ago, and today they are the world leader in insect ingredients, running the la...
2024-05-091h 05Founder RadioKim Durand of Cheaf on moving from Europe to Asia to Latin America, Finding Product Market Fit, Stress, Self-Improvement and Next StepsWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Kim Durand hails from Paris and moved to Mexico City to start Cheaf, which reduces food waste by offering high quality food that is close to the expiry date at steep discounts. Started less than 4 years ago, the company now employs 30 FTE. Kim was born and raised in France and has worked at incubator Nova Founders Capital a...
2024-04-1549 minFounder RadioSophia Hummelman of ReCarbn on Reversing Climate Change and How to Start a BusinessWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Sophia Hummelman Co-Founded ReCarbn, which is working on reversing climate change, by direct air capture of CO2. Sophia was born and raised in the Netherlands and has working in finance at JPMorgan and iFund, in London, Paris and Amsterdam, before starting ReCarbn. Amongst many other things, we discussed How direct air capture of CO2 work...
2024-02-2728 minFounder RadioHarpreet Singh of Peckish on Stress, Sikhism and working at UberWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Listen to our talk with Harpreet Singh! Harpreet Co-Founded Peckish, and is building a new backend operating system for restaurants to drastically reduce food waste and increase profitability for restaurants. Harpreet was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and now works and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Before Peckish, he has founded The Turban Shop and worked at Uber a...
2024-01-2452 minFounder RadioYorick Bruins of Wakuli on Impact, Coffee from Congo and Wakuli's business model changeWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Tune in to our latest conversation with Yorick Bruins! Yorick is Co-Founder and CEO of Wakuli, a Netherlands based Direct-to-Consumer subscription coffee brand, thats has also started opening coffee shops at a high pace.Wakuli is all about changing the system of coffee production and distribution, and by cutting out a lot of the middle men, succeeds in paying...
2024-01-241h 08Founder RadioMikael Rautanen of Inderes on Investing, Longevity and Standing Next to Others in Tough TimesWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Mikael Rautanen is Co-Founder and CEO of Inderes, a Finland based equity research and investor relations company. Inderes is changing the investing industry, from a focus on the 1%, to a world where every retail investor has full access to company information and insights. Mikael attributes a lot of Inderes success to the unique company culture.Mikael has been at...
2023-12-0152 minFounder RadioNikolaas van de Loock of Rite on Design, Boutique Sports and the Marathon des SablesWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!Niko is the founder of Rite Studios, a boutique sports chain from Belgium. He's started his career at Unilever and has held Strategy and General Manager roles at Uber in India, the Middle East and Europe. In this episode, we discuss The founding of RiteThe development sports has gone through in the last 50 yearsThe challenges he sets himself, th...
2023-11-0349 minFounder RadioMark Hulshof of Triggre on Nocode for SMEs and Neuro-Linguistic ProgrammingWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!This episode we have Mark Hulshof of Triggre. Mark has been building Triggre, a nocode automation platform for SMEs, for over 10 years. He's now experiencing a strong acceleration in his business, and is getting ready for expansion. Mark is very open about his ambitions, struggles and learning experiences along the way. We touch on a wide range of topics, i...
2023-09-2347 minFounder RadioJacqueline van den Ende of Carbon Equity on Climate Change and Moral LeadershipWant to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates!This episode we talk to Jacqueline van den Ende of Carbon Equity. Jacqueline and her co-founders started Carbon Equity 3 years ago in order to combat climate change. Carbon Equity enables consumers to invest in innovative technology companies, leading to direct climate impact and attractive financial returns. The company has just announced its Series A, and saw its number of users and...
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